-
Recent Posts
Subscribe by Email
Search
Category Archives: Community Church Edinburgh
Celebrating 25 years
No not our wedding anniversary, but 25 years in our church building, The King’s Hall. To be strictly accurate, I wasn’t around in 1985 when the church, then called Edinburgh City Fellowship moved into an old Church of Scotland building … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Community Church Edinburgh
2 Comments
Rahab the Do-Nothing
Last Sunday, I spoke from Isa 30:1-14, in the first part of a two talks continuing to look at why we don’t pray – part 2 is this Sunday. We also built a wall – click on the photo for … Continue reading
Learning to Pray
This Monday (12th October) I am starting a series of six evenings in church (mainly Monday nights once a month), to help people to learn to pray. I have mentioned before, but I am constantly amazed at the disciples (who … Continue reading
Why don’t we pray? – Part 6
This Sunday I will be continuing to look at reasons why we don’t pray. Generally, Christians know the value of prayer, but mostly we still struggle to pray. It has often been thus. Even in the days of Israel, keeping … Continue reading
Why don’t we pray? – Part 5
The Prodigal Son is an incredibly well known story (Luke 15:11-32). But often the focus is on the younger son, who leaves home with his inheritance from his not-yet-dead Father, squanders it, and returns to find and experience the grace … Continue reading
Why don’t we pray? – Part 4
There are deep movements of our hearts, that in the normal course of events, we are often unaware of. They surface during times of change or transition. They surface when things that we have relied on for a sense of … Continue reading
Why don’t we pray? – Part 3
Part 1 – the sermon teaser. Part 2 – the depths of our desires – the first part of what I shared on Sunday. The second part of Sunday’s Sermon was Mary and Martha (Lk 10:38-42). Martha and Mary are … Continue reading
Posted in Community Church Edinburgh, Engaging with Scripture, Prayer, Sermons
Tagged Mary and Martha, prayer
2 Comments
The Depths of Our Desires
Or “Why don’t we don’t we Pray? – Part 2 Part 1 can be read here. This is a short summary of the first part of what I said yesterday (Sunday 13th September) at church. The audio will be available … Continue reading
Why don’t we pray?
Why don’t we pray? If I knew the answer to that one, I could write a book, become famous … Bill Hybels did it, in 1988, when no-one had heard of Bill Hybels or Willowcreek. “Too Busy not to Pray”. … Continue reading
Monumental Service
Last Sunday, I invited our congregation to practice the spiritual discipline of daily prayer. You can read a summary of my talk in the previous post (somehow the words on the computer screen don’t have quite the life that they … Continue reading